Frida Kahlo at Tate Modern, the Brexit effect, a Renaissance tarot deck
This last episode of the current season begins with Frida Kahlo. Tate Modern in London this week opened Frida: The Making of an Icon, an exh...
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20 of 388 episodesArt Basel in Basel, Pierre Huyghe interview, James Turrell
Kabir Jhala, The Art Newspaper’s art market editor, joins Ben Luke to discuss this year’s Art Basel, the big sales and the wider mood music....
Pan-Africanism in London, the health benefits of art, Barbara Hepworth
The exhibition Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica began its life at the Art Institute of Chicago before travelling to...
Yemen heritage, US flags at the National Gallery in Washington, Felix Gonzalez-Torres
After years of civil war and continuity violence, Yemen’s heritage has suffered hugely, with buildings damaged across the country and antiqu...
Smithsonian Women’s Museum chaos, Oliver Beer and Rufus Wainwright, Jasper Johns in Bilbao
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has faced unprecedented scrutiny and government interference since President Trump came to p...
New York auctions, James McNeill Whistler at Tate Britain, Edvard Munch
This season’s much anticipated auctions in New York have brought some records and eye-popping prices, including for works by Jackson Pollock...
Frieze New York, the Cranach in Hitler’s Munich apartment, Ajamu X
The latest edition of Frieze New York is open now and we hear all about this year’s fair from The Art Newspaper’s editor-in-chief in the Ame...
Venice Biennale Special 2026
It’s Venice Biennale opening week and so, as ever, this episode is our Venice special. The Biennale comprises many aspects: an international...
Zurbarán in London, the Carnegie International, Walter Sickert’s Ennui
The largest career survey of the great 17th-century Spanish master Francisco de Zurbarán since the 1980s opens this weekend at the National...
Chernobyl 40 years on, Paula Rego at Munch in Oslo, Gluck’s flower painting
This Sunday, 26 April, marks the 40th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Soviet Ukraine. It is the most serious...
Museum openings: V&A East and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Plus, William Blake in Dublin
Two museum openings feature on this week’s podcast—V&A East in London and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In our 300th episode in 2024...
Marcel Duchamp at MoMA, Dorothea Tanning book, Leonora Carrington at the Freud Museum, London
Three artists who in different ways connect to the Surrealist movement are the subject of this week’s podcast. At the Museum of Modern Art i...
Should English museums charge tourists? Plus, Raphael at the Met and Senga Nengudi at the Whitechapel Gallery
The UK government last week issued a response to a report ostensibly exploring the future of the funding body Arts Council England but conta...
Matisse’s explosive finale and a new chapter for Hong Kong? Plus, Schiaparelli and Dalí
The Grand Palais in Paris this week unveiled an enormous exhibition focusing on the final 13 years of Henri Matisse’s life and work, a proje...
New Museum extension opens, NextGen collectors, a Wardian Case in Oxford
The New Museum in New York opens its new extension, designed by Shohei Shigematsu and Rem Koolhaas of the architectural practice OMA, this w...
Iran war: art communities and heritage in Iran, moderate recovery in the art market, Cannupa Hanska Luger at the Sydney Biennale
As the war in the Middle East continues to rage, Ben Luke speaks to The Art Newspaper’s reporter on Iran and other countries in the region,...
Iran war and culture in the Gulf, the Whitney Biennial, Rembrandt discovery
As the war against Iran instigated last week by Israel and the United States continues to spread through the Middle East, we explore how it...
Venice Biennale details revealed, Beatriz González, Tracey Emin
Following the tragic death of Koyo Kouoh last May, the details of her final project—In Minor Keys, the international exhibition of the 2026...
National Gallery’s deficit bombshell, Simon Schama on birds and art, Vilhelm Hammershøi
After opening a major building project in May last year and announcing the details of another in September, which is due to open in the earl...
The US struggles with history, Stephen Friedman Gallery closes, Tudor Heart pendant acquired by the British Museum
On 4 July 2026 the US will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the nation’s founding document. But huge divisions...